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Charles J. Stumar is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Hongrois born on 28 august 1890 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Charles J. Stumar (souvent crédité Charles Stumar), né le 28 août 1890 à Budapest (Hongrie ; alors Autriche-Hongrie), mort le 29 juin 1935 à Triunfo (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain d'origine hongroise, membre de l'ASC.
Charles J. Stumar collabore en tout à plus de quatre-vingt-dix films américains jusqu'en 1935, année de sa mort prématurée, dans un accident d'avion. En particulier, durant la période du muet, il photographie à plusieurs reprises Louise Glaum, notamment dans Love de Wesley Ruggles (1920, avec James Kirkwood Sr.).
En outre, il contribue à quatorze films allemands sortis de 1929 à 1931, dont cinq réalisés par (et avec) William Dieterle.
Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons La Case de l'oncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin), de Harry A. Pollard (1927, avec Margarita Fischer et George Siegmann), La Momie de Karl Freund (1932, avec Boris Karloff et Zita Johann), ou encore Le Corbeau de Lew Landers (1935, avec Boris Karloff et Béla Lugosi).
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Charles J. Stumar
Nationality Hongrie
Birth 28 august 1890 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 29 june 1935 (at 44 years) at California (USA)
Birth 28 august 1890 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 29 june 1935 (at 44 years) at California (USA)
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Lui et son frère John Stumar (1892-1962) émigrent aux États-Unis, où ils deviennent tous deux chefs opérateurs sur des films muets sortis en 1917.Charles J. Stumar collabore en tout à plus de quatre-vingt-dix films américains jusqu'en 1935, année de sa mort prématurée, dans un accident d'avion. En particulier, durant la période du muet, il photographie à plusieurs reprises Louise Glaum, notamment dans Love de Wesley Ruggles (1920, avec James Kirkwood Sr.).
En outre, il contribue à quatorze films allemands sortis de 1929 à 1931, dont cinq réalisés par (et avec) William Dieterle.
Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons La Case de l'oncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin), de Harry A. Pollard (1927, avec Margarita Fischer et George Siegmann), La Momie de Karl Freund (1932, avec Boris Karloff et Zita Johann), ou encore Le Corbeau de Lew Landers (1935, avec Boris Karloff et Béla Lugosi).
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The Raven (1935)
, 1h1Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Samuel S. Hinds, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Inez Courtney
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
After Jean Thatcher (Ware) has been injured in a car accident, her father, Judge Thatcher (Hinds) and beau Jerry (Matthews) implore retired surgeon Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) to perform a delicate operation to restore her to health. Vollin agrees and is successful; he befriends the spirited and grateful Jean, in the process revealing his passion for all things related to Edgar Allan Poe, including his homemade collection of torture devices inspired by Poe's works (such as a pit, pendulum with scythe, shrinking room, etc.), and identifying the raven as his talisman.
Werewolf of London (1935)
, 1h15Directed by Stuart Walker
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Spring Byington, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grant
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is a wealthy and world-renowned English botanist who journeys to Tibet in search of the elusive mariphasa plant. While there, he is attacked and bitten by a creature later revealed to be a werewolf, although he succeeds in acquiring a specimen of the mariphasa. Once back home in London he is approached by a fellow botanist, Dr. Yogami (Warner Oland), who claims to have met him in Tibet while also seeking the mariphasa. Yogami warns Glendon that the bite of a werewolf would cause him to become a werewolf as well, adding that the mariphasa is a temporary antidote for the disease.
Storm Over the Andes (1935)
, 1h22Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Actors Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart, Grant Withers, Barry Norton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Let's Talk It Over (1934)
, 1h8Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Chester Morris, Mae Clarke, Frank Craven, John Warburton, Irene Ware, Andy Devine
Roles Director of Photography
Rating24%
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
, 1h18Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly, John Sheehan, Carmel Myers
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Bombay Mail (1934)
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edmund Lowe, Ralph Forbes, Shirley Grey, Hedda Hopper, Onslow Stevens, Jameson Thomas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
En Inde, un inspecteur de police enquête sur un meurtre ayant eu lieu dans un train reliant Calcutta à Bombay.
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lionel Atwill, Edward Arnold, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Onslow Stevens, William Janney
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
A woman's suitor challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a room in which several murders occurred years before at 1 a.m. The suitor, Tommy, sleeps there on the first night but disappears at 1 a.m. Then the second man sleeps there on the second night, at 12:30 a.m, he starts playing the piano, however, he is shot half an hour later.
King for a Night (1933)
, 1h18Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Chester Morris, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice White, John Miljan, Grant Mitchell, Frank Albertson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
The Mummy (1932)
, 1h13Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Mythologie égyptienne
Actors Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
An ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep (Boris Karloff) is revived when an archaeological expedition in 1921, led by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron), finds Imhotep's mummy. Imhotep had been mummified alive for attempting to resurrect his forbidden lover, the princess Ankh-es-en-amon. Whemple's friend, Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan) inspects the mummy and exclaims "The viscera were not removed. The usual scar made by the embalmers knife is not there." Sir Joseph Wimple responds, "I guessed as much." Despite Muller's warning, Sir Joseph's assistant Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) reads aloud an ancient life-giving scroll – the Scroll of Thoth. Imhotep escapes from the archaeologists, taking the Scroll of Thoth, and prowls Cairo seeking the modern reincarnation of Ankh-es-en-amon.
Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors H. B. Warner, Slim Summerville, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell, Alan Ladd, Sidney Toler
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
A young man (Tom Brown) attends Culver Military Academy. He is the only son of a deceased soldier who won the Congressional Medal of Honour.
A House Divided (1931)
, 1h10Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Huston, Helen Chandler, Douglass Montgomery, Lloyd Ingraham, Charles Middleton, Frank Hagney
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
A widowed fisherman (Huston) falls in love with and marries a younger woman (Chandler), who falls in love with the man's son (Montgomery).
Aloha (1931)
, 1h30Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Robert Edeson, Alan Hale, Thelma Todd, Ena Gregory
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Dans les mers du Sud, Ilanu, une demi-caste, ne veut pas épouser Kahea, un homme de sa tribu, mais plutôt l'Américain Jimmy Bradford, qui est sur l'île depuis près d'un an et supervise les plantations de coprah de son père. Après avoir rejeté Kahea, Ilanu trouve Jimmy en train de regretté la vie qu'il a quittée. Quand elle découvre qu'il ne s'intéresse pas à elle, elle part en larmes. Le vieux Ben, qui se vante d'avoir jadis obtenu trois diplômes à Harvard, avertit Jimmy de ne pas s'impliquer avec une autochtone en montrant du doigt ses six enfants métis et en citant Kipling. Jimmy écrit à son amie Elaine Marvin en Amérique.
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1930)
, 1h57Directed by William Dieterle
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors William Dieterle, Theodor Loos, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Eugen Burg, Ferdinand von Alten, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1928)
, 2h24Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Margarita Fischer, Rondo Hatton, George Siegmann, James B. Low, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Eulalie Jensen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
L'Oncle Tom et Eliza sont tous deux esclaves de la même maison dans le Kentucky.
The Cohens and Kellys (1926)
, 1h20Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles Murray, Kate Price, Jason Robards Sr., Olive Hasbrouck, Nat Carr
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
As articulated in the Nichols case, The Cohens and The [sic] Kellys presents two families, Jewish and Irish, living side by side in the poorer quarters of New York in a state of perpetual enmity. The wives in both cases are still living, and share in the mutual animosity, as do two small sons, and even the respective dogs. The Jews have a daughter, the Irish a son; the Jewish father is in the clothing business; the Irishman is a policeman. The children are in love with each other, and secretly marry, apparently after the play opens. The Jew, being in great financial straits, learns from a lawyer that he has fallen heir to a large fortune from a great-aunt, and moves into a great house, fitted luxuriously. Here he and his family live in vulgar ostentation, and here the Irish boy seeks out his Jewish bride, and is chased away by the angry father. The Jew then abuses the Irishman over the telephone, and both become hysterically excited. The extremity of his feelings makes the Jew sick, so that he must go to Florida for a rest, just before which the daughter discloses her marriage to her mother. On his return, the Jew finds that his daughter has borne a child; at first he suspects the lawyer, but eventually learns the truth and is overcome with anger at such a low alliance. Meanwhile, the Irish family who have been forbidden to see the grandchild, go to the Jew's house, and after a violent scene between the two fathers in which the Jew disowns his daughter, who decides to go back with her husband, the Irishman takes her back with her baby to his own poor lodgings. The lawyer, who had hoped to marry the Jew's daughter, seeing his plan foiled, tells the Jew that his fortune really belongs to the Irishman, who was also related to the dead woman, but offers to conceal his knowledge, if the Jew will share the loot. This the Jew repudiates, and, leaving the astonished lawyer, walks through the rain to his enemy's house to surrender the property. He arrives in great dejection, tells the truth, and abjectly turns to leave. A reconciliation ensues, the Irishman agreeing to share with him equally. The Jew shows some interest in his grandchild, though this is at most a minor motive in the reconciliation, and the curtain falls while the two are in their cups, the Jew insisting that in the firm name for the business, which they are to carry on jointly, his name shall stand first.